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6 weeks after opening, the Howell Community Park pool closes after incident involving guns

Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:15 am
Posted by SPEEDY
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Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:15 am
How it started:




How it’s going:

quote:

The pool at Howell Community Park has closed after an incident Sunday.

Four children between the ages of 8 and 12 reportedly jumped over the fence surrounding the pool. BREC officials said a lifeguard was confronted with guns after asking them to leave.

The parks and recreation agency said despite the incident, the last Late Night Hype event at the park will be on July 25.

Howell Community Park is located at 5509 Winbourne Ave.


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This post was edited on 7/22/25 at 11:18 am
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
11903 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:17 am to
Grand Opening... Grand Closing.

The article reads funny... was it the 8-12 year olds that menaced the lifeguard with guns?
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
33524 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:18 am to
Your property value rises the further you are away from this garbage.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42427 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:18 am to
quote:

The parks and recreation agency said despite the incident, the last Late Night Hype event at the park will be on July 25.



Go ahead and pencil in a few extra staff in the ER that night.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
22655 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:20 am to

They need to get Joe Biden in there.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
11903 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:20 am to
quote:

The parks and recreation agency said despite the incident, the last Late Night Hype event at the park will be on July 25.


Midnight water polo and guns... what could go wrong?
Posted by Hold That Tiger 10
Member since Oct 2013
24444 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:20 am to
Build new nice things, and they get quickly trashed and full of violence and crime. Be forced to close, or it becomes an unkept shite hole because of it and people are racist for "not caring about their park."

Don't build the new nice things and be labeled a racist because they don't have new nice things.

People should just learn you will be unfairly labeled a racist regardless. Better to just save the money and the headache.
This post was edited on 7/22/25 at 11:21 am
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103058 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:23 am to
quote:

Midnight water polo and guns... what could go wrong?


Someone going to try and play Black Gallagher?

Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
59227 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:23 am to
Congratulations to these people for continuing to destroy every nice thing that’s made available to them.

Shame on the people who continue to bend over backwards to make those things available to them.
Posted by Boston911
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2013
2319 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:24 am to
We are not created equal
Posted by threedog79
Member since Sep 2013
3647 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:24 am to
We all know the lifeguard was white (requires swimming) and that the kids were not a bunch of Brads and Chads so that lifeguard didn’t show up the next day for work.
Posted by TDTOM
Member since Jan 2021
24161 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:28 am to
It really is fascinating.
Posted by SPEEDY
2005 Tiger Smack Poster of the Year
Member since Dec 2003
86415 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:28 am to
quote:

The article reads funny... was it the 8-12 year olds that menaced the lifeguard with guns?


Good question. It isn’t clear, but there are only two options:

It’s either the kids had guns

or

after the kids were made to leave after getting caught jumping the fence someone returned with guns to confront the staff

Not sure which is worst
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103058 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:28 am to
quote:

Four children between the ages of 8 and 12 reportedly jumped over the fence surrounding the pool. BREC officials said a lifeguard was confronted with guns after asking them to leave.


Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
11903 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:31 am to
quote:

Not sure which is worst


Me neither... but sure as shite neither would be surprising.
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
36595 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:39 am to
What a lovely summer the kids can have aaaaaaand it’s gone
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
292684 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:44 am to
SC Reviews has a youtube channel where he highlights the "fatuiguer" nonsense.

Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
292684 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:45 am to
quote:

We are not created equal


In the 70s, when I was a child my classmates who were black were nothing like this.

Its been a slow decline to the bottom since integration.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128515 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:46 am to
We just need more money for programs and social workers. Also stricter gun laws.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
103058 posts
Posted on 7/22/25 at 11:46 am to
quote:

Its been a slow decline to the bottom since integration.


Great Society came at the same time and royally fricked the black family unit.
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